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t o " ' o ' o n ft s Second Cousin arah re avtho or 'Anna jvmb. sriNSTtK." "mm ujm uw." ere. trc. CHAPTER XXVIIL i br mj eongratulatlone, after which I It was tht old position and jet with said rood mornlnr" a grave difference. It waa the old Una "Wall J" aaid Sarah, almoat aharpljr of argument eropplnf op afresh In Sarah now. Eaatball'a mind, with no Reuben Culwlek "Well, an hour or two afterward aha at hand to laugh down her logic with turned np at the railway atatlon, and In Reuben Culwlck'a power to laugh it , common politeneaa I could but offer her down, perhapa, wonderfully dimluiahed. my eacort back to town. She waa tery John had told of Reuben going to And anxloua to aee you, aha aald." Mary Holland at Worceeter. Lucq had I "Ah! aha aald ao." anawered hla iee predicted evil would coma of It, and ond-cousln. There waa no further argu Marith waa wretched. ment after the Introduction of Mary Hoi- She mnat give him np aha must not land's name Into the conversation. The remain that weight upon hla life, that harmony of their laat eTening together clog npon hit Induatry, which aha had waa effectually aettled after that. Bet alwaya thought aha waa, when her love ter to hare ended all In a etorra of worda waa not bewildering her too much. Uen- and teara than In the grace and unnat ben loved her, ahe hoped atlll alio did nral alienee which followed. Sarah bad not put faith In those atranga suspicions no Idea that ahe waa a Jealoua woman of Lucy Jennlnge but Lucy waa right until then, for Lucy had not made her In one thing; that ihe, Sarah Kastbell, Jealoua laat night only rouaed in ber a could not add to the happlneaa of Ueu- feeling of Intenae Indignation at the ana ben Culwlck'a life. She could only add piciona which ahe had aown broadcast to the expenses! she could only keep But for Reuben Culwlek to apeak of him poor. If ahe atood apart now, per- j Mary Holland lu thla off-hand way waa bapa be would marry Mary noiiana, aim , be maater of hla father"! bona again, Jiwt eat he father had wlahed from the Brnt. f he had no light to bind him to hla long engagement, to ehackle hia energies, to keep him from "bettering" hlinaelf now that the felt herself aa poor mor ally, if not legally aa poor aa when he cam In aearch of her to Potter's Court It waa a very quiet morning at one of those atrunge Sunday services; thoaa who came to pray were not diaturbed by thoaa who cama to acoff; but the evening waa Boisterous and atormy, and made op for ... Lucy Jennings rend the eigne of It in the nnisf crowd about the door, and com preaaed her lipa and held her breath at the atroug language which echoed from the atreet aa alia and Sarah approached, under the eacort of two policemen, who war waiting for them. . "You are trembling you are afraid," aid Lucy Jennings to her companion; "will you turn back nowT "Whyr 'There will be but little religion there to-night," aald Lucy, "and you ara not trong woman." "I waa not thinking of tha crowd or the aervlce," anawered Sarah. "Of what thenr waa the aharp In quiry. - "Of all I shall any to Reuben present 1 ly. It'a very wrong, I know, Lucy, but yon mint not blame me for thinking of Llm ao much. I can't help It," aba laid plaintively. They passed nnder tha arch, whare tha aervlce commenced, and waa Inter ruptedwhere the old uproar went on, and tha police were tolerably bus for an hour and a half. The aervlce came to an end; the atormy elementa subsid ed; men, women and children went their various waya, and Lucy Jenninga and Sarah Eaatbell came out together, and confronted Reuben Culwlek, who waa waiting for them. "Ton have coma back then!" cried Sarah In her flrat delight at aeelng him, In her new forgetfulneaa of all that aha had reaolved upon, "Yea It waa no oae atopplng longer In Worceater, Sarah. Well, Lucy!" "Well," anawered Lucy In her old ahort tonea. "I congratulate you on your sermon, but I wlah tha surroundings had been mora orthodox, and tha congregation leaa quarrelsome; for aoma of theae duvt " Lucy waa gone. She had auddeuly "doubled," and disappeared down ona of the dark turning!, and Sarah and Reu ben were left looking at each other. Sarnh Eaatbell took hla arm and elgh d. Thla might be for tha laat time that they would ever walk together thus, who could tell? She bad made up her mind now, and tha aooner tha truth waa told him tha better, lie gave her the oppor tunity to speak at once, and ber Impul siveness leaped toward It, indiscreetly, desperately. "1 aaw Mls Holland thla morning; I gar her tha will and you ara aa poor aa old Job, girl I" ha aald. "Yea, Reuben; I have been watting for this poverty to tell you that you must not ahara It with me." "Indeed!" waa his quiet answer. "That you and I are not fit for each . i . r- t i i i , ... . . einer. v... ueuoeu, an. criea, am ..Kimtri p,,, , exclaim quite certain of It now!" ed Sarah Ka.tbell. , "Because Lucy Jenninge-c harming gh, w lurpri,e,,n, h.rdIy kB(,w Lucyl-has been at her old work, reck-1 wh but ,, iorry for hli death onlng af ter her old atyle, fashioning out bai vUttei ,KMnit brTu wouU, hav. , " killed her ratner tnan let Her escape way. choosing for others a path ahead wlthmlt , Mn,om-but ahe did not be that no human being out of Bedlam could grud, hlm hli ,., And ,t lfft M follow, doing everything for the beat and . f0ang .nd ,,rett- wlllow t0o-but what Ia. nn.'a mnnA hut ina.tavlna nil,, inn ...... . . . ..... for one's good, but scattering dust and ashea right and left like violent Vesu vius, Come, Is not Lucy Jennings at tha bottom of the resolution?" "I have been thinking of this for weeks. I have been seeing the neces sity for It " "Ay, through Lucy's apectaeles." "You would lose money by coming to me," aaid Sarah mournfully. "Nonsenso! I have beguu to aava money again." "Ah, Reuben, let us understand each ether at last; don't ask me to say any thing, do anything, but and thla unnat ural position between us. I am uuhap- py- "Became of this rngagemoMf' "es." "You are afraid of poverty w'th meT" "I am afruld of making you poorer than you are of keeping you loot all your life," aaid Sarah. "If thia la to be our last meeting, or our laat parting, Sarah," lie said t,ulck ly, "let It be marred by no hnrah remi niscence. We are going to any guod-hy. We have discovered that houaekeeplng expenaea will shipwreck ua; that 1 ahull grow lu tlme a big brute, to whom no eecond-conain'a devotion will bring com fort. But we need nut quarrel ovur the iiscovery. We can part friends T" , "Yea." anaweerd Surah, "the best of friends." (There waa something In hla manner that she hardly fnthomed. She had been more prepared for an angry outburst than for this easy going style of acqui escence. "It la hardly Justice," he continued, "for you. who would hove married a poor man. will not let me marry a poor wom an in my turn. Yon want all the eel snrrlllce ou one side, Sarah: and even my good luck with my pen ia turned into a weapon against me. But," he atlUed. "we will not quarrel. Never an angry word between theae two blundering rela tives, who do not know their own minds We will spare each other between this and the York rond. We will wait till Miss Holland gives us her opluloa ou the matier." "Miss Holland!" vried Sarah Eaatbell. "What do you mean'r" "Miss Holland Is in the York Road apartments. She came from Worcester with ma thla afternoon." "With you! You went to eacort har thenT" "So. I went to aee her, to tell her tha a ewe of her prosperity, and to offer very umercui m.utr, aim wr nnn tank like atone and refused to stir any mora with hope or pleaaure, or even sur prise. When they were In the York road Reu ben aald: "She ia not In good spirits, but I hope Tota has been companion for her while we bave been away." "Ia the child with herr "To be aura," aald Reuben; "Is not Tota but there, Mary will explain for herself." "Mary!" echoed Sarah Eaatbell. They went npatalra Into the front room on tha first Boor, where aat by tha fire side tha young woman whom wa have known by tha name of Mary Hollnnd. Tota waa In her lap, with her child'a arma round her neck, and ber little head soothed upon a niother'a bosom for tha first time In her chlldiah recollections. "It la her child thou!" aald Sarah In a low whisper. "Yea, to be aura," answered Reuben carelessly. "I am In dream," murmured Sarah. "But yon ara very do to tha wak ing," added her cousin Reuben. CHAPTER XXIX. There waa another Inmate of tha room which Reuben and bis coualn had enter ed. Lucy Jennings waa atandlng on tha hearth rug with her handa clasped to gether, and her grave white face turned toward mother and child. She had reach ed home before them, having a better knowledge of the ahorteat cut to York Road than Reuben had. ' Mary looked round as tha conslna came lu together, and a sad smile flickered on a faoa grown careworn with anxiety. She did not raise her head from that of her child aa Reuben and Sarah advanced, and Reuben aald; "Mrs. Peterson, 1 have brought an old friend to shake handa with you to ex press her regrets for al that paat dlatrust which aha baa had, aa well aa I." Sarah had only heard tha Drat two worda. "Mrs. Pettreonl" aha ' exclaimed. "Then you you " "I waa Edward Peterson's wife," aba added wearily and sadly "yes." "But not in tha plot against yon, Sarah," aaid Reuben; "fighting for yi I In tha first instance writing to ma to coma to tha rescue kept forever In doubt concerning you held down at last to alienee by tha awful threat of her child'a death believing tn your safety through It all, and atriving once mora for you and againat her husband when she feared hla treachery had deceived her," "And he waa true to hla word," Mury added with a algh, "for tha first time In hla life. It la a long atory; spare me for few daya tha history of a school girl's secret marriage, bitter repentance, a husband a desertion, a long up hill fight to forget a past that had become terri ble and full of humiliation. I did uot know then that Bessie lived, and waa one link of love that held me to my old life. I have come to London for a few words of explanation, Sarah; they are made nt a aad time," Mary said, "but 1 could not rest, after Reuben's visit to menot even for an hour after my husband's death." Dad that to ao with It I "Ha died within an hour of your cous in's visit thia morning," aaid Mary. "And you are here," replied 8arah wonderingly. "Ah! you cannot understand that," said Mary, "you who will love your hus band all your life. But my love was crushed out quickly, and only my duty took me to hie bedside my regret for the laat mistake which brought about his death, and his last act of vengeance." "Ilia lust act of vengeance!" repeat ed Sarnh. "Half an hour after Mr. Culwlek had left me, my husband changed suddenly; he wholly realised, and for the first time, that there was no hope for him In hls world, and what did be do?" she added with a shudder. "He should have ssked pardon of you for blighting your life' aaid Sarah. "He should have sought pardon of his God," added Lucy Jenninga. "He tore the last will of Sumon Cul wlek into a hundred pieces, lest I should claim my right to riches by It." anawer ed Mary; "he cursed me, and left me poor." "But " "But I have all the fragments," add ed Mary, opening a purse heaped to the clnap with small pieces of paper; "see there they are." Sarah glanced at them, but" did not apeak. "X would be a specimen of patchwork that the law would hardly acknowledge," said the widow, "bit you would not dis pute the will, Sarah, if I, by patient study and great rare, render thia testa ment complete again?" "No," answered Sarah Eaatbell. "In my husband's lifetime I dared not make him rich; and now, in memory of m'li h kindness, of old trust of new con fidence, may I say? I have th courage to remain poor." She held Ihe open purse over the fire, and the fragments fell from it Into the red coals. Reuben and Sarah at a r ted for ward to arrest her hand, but it too late. "You hould not have dona thia, Mary," cried Reuben. "It waa not a Just will," answered tha widow; "1 told your father ao when ha placed it in my hands, although I did not tell him that never In all my Ufa ahould I avail myself of his muuf&cnee." "Ha had wronged your father In aoma manner which wa canuot even gueea at but which he owned himself. You told toe that," aald Reuben.. "Ha waa atranga that day. It might ' have been tha raving of a madman." 1 "Aa that," aaid Lucy, pointing to tha ' fire, "waa tha act of madwoman." 1 "I think not," answered Mary confi dently; "It ia an act of justice to tha man entitled to hia fatber'a money, and who i will marry thla brave young lady In pos session. "She has given ma np," aaid Renboa dryly; but Mary turned from ona to an other and read no donbt or distress on cither face. Hera ware two lives in tha sunshine at last. "I believe It waa alwaya Simon Cul wlck'a wlah that Reuben abould have thla money," continued Mary; "be did not know of my marriage, and I dared not tall him for my home's aake, and ao we went on from one complication to an other. There were only two wills; tha first left all to hia aister, tha aecond to me and the aecond I could not, and did not care to prove. Tha anewer to tha riddle cama round In tha way I thought it might do. If I were watchful and re servedfor I knew in what high esti mation Sarah East bell held her cousin, and how ahe had made up ber mind to give an obstinate man bie rights. She and I together planned more ways than one aha very artless, l very artiui per hapsbut the beat and simplest and hap piest way has come without our plotting.'" "But your' aald Sarah and Ueuben almoat together. "You two are not likely to forget me, or my little daughter here to ahut me from your friendship to help me In tha world, ahould I want help." "Help!" echoed Reuben. "why, It ia all yours." "You can't prove that," aald Mary em phatically, "and I would prefer to be de pendent on your bounty. I will not be too proud to ask for a pension, when my lit tle girl growa up and tires of her moth er." "Tha future, for you and Tots, yon will leave to Sarah and me," aaid Reu ben; "you will trust in those whom you have trusted ao much already." "Aa they will trust in me now," said the unselfish woman, holding out ber handa to them. e e e e a a It la a fair picture on which the cur tain la rung down on perfect confidence, and true affection and prosperity on life opening out before these three with no ahadowa on the sconce beyond, lien ben and Sarah will live happily forever afterward aa young couples always should in books and Mary and her daughter will be their faithful friends sud loving companions to tha end of life. In tha red glow of the sunset of our story, stands poor Lucy Jennings grave and atony as the Libyan sphinx com menting but little upon the happiness about her, and yet feeling that It reaches to her heart, and makea her mora lika; other women. Reuben'a brother-in-law, ona Thomae Eaatbell, will not visit Worcestershire again, and Reuben'a wife will not learn for j ears of his disappearance In the Australian buah where "Wa can afford to let the last of our villains hide him self. e a a a e In tha bright early morning, gazing from tha window of her room at the fair landscape beyond, with the allvery laugh ter of little children ringing upward from the lawn, and with her husband's arm linked within her own, Becond-conaln Sarah will talk no longer of Sedge Hill being an unlucky house. (Tha end.) PLAYING WITH THE "BONE& Dlraralon of the Boys of a Generation Aro Ia Now Almost Foraottea. Few boya of tha present day can "piny the bones" ai skillfully aa did the youth of thirty or forty yean ago, The diversion la confined almoat ex clusively to the end men In the minstrel ahowa. "There waa a fellow who had a great knack of playing the bones," aald an old-tlmor the other day. "Ha waa tha first bona soloist I've heard In a good many years. Even the minstrel shows don't pay much attention to the bones nowadaya and I guess that' the next generation will look npon us folk as savagea for ever having listened to the music of the bones. The things that thla soloist played with the other night weren't, I Imagine, aura enough bones; they were probably fashioned of some ) i ud of wood. "I can remember when every small boy In the country had a mad passion to become an artist with the bones. That was more than a quarter of a cen tury ago, when minstrelsy was a big thing and all the youngsters In the land ached and longed way down deep In them to become famous mlnatrel men, The ambitions of most of the kids of my day centered on the bones' end and we used to practice wltji the bones for hours nt a stretch. I used to wait for my mother to get a rib roast and the good woman would hard ly have the moat off those ribs before I'd have 'em out In tho back yard saw ing and hammering away at 'em and tinkering them Into shape to be us.d for bones. I'd devote hours to scrap ing them when I had sawed them Into shape and then I'd plaer them where the- summer sun would hit them for about a week to thoroughly dry them. "Then they'd be ready for use and I'd proceed, along with all the rest of the kids In the neighborhood pro vided with bones, to drfve the older folks crazy with the horrible noise. There's a whole lot of science In manip ulating the bones properly. I used to practice about half a day at a stretch with the right-hnud bones and then I'd round out the rest of the day getting the hang of the left-hand bones and I've seen strong men be compelled to take to their beds from nervous col lapse after spending a week In the neighborhood infested by a bunch of small boys getting the hang of the bones. Things are not like they used to be. I'll bet there are thousands of young fellows who are of age right In this town who never scraped a set f bones when they were youngsters and whe never Indulged In the exalted dream of one dny becoming celebrated minstrel men." Kiyedltlnna. She When I rang you up at the club to-day It didn't take any time for the one who attends the telephone to get you. . He Well, you told him you were my wife, didn't you? She No, I told him I was not your wife. New York Herald. Advantage of Steel Building. With the modern steel framing a building can with safety be carried to seven and a half tlmea the diameter of Its base. Chus an ordinary kusinesa building could be arerjtod to a .eight of ci,W3 t-L BUVWNI TY'S DEBT TO THE UNITED STATES. By John W. Potter, gi-Secrefarr of Stat. By Its steady championship of a freer commerce and of moat elevated principles of conduct tn war, tha United States baa brought about an almost complete change in the practice of na tions. There still remain to be Incor porated Into International law one of the principles announced by the found Vers of our government and steadily d- fa 'M Tocated up to thia from seizure of private property on tlie aea in time of war. John w. 1-oaTtB, As Our country from Its earliest his tory led the nations of the earth In creating a more ele vated system of International law, so also It bas been the most active in adjusting International controversies and preserving peace by means of treaties of arbitration. The Crst treaty negotiated after the organization of our govern ment nnder the constitution the Jay treaty of 1794 with Great Britain marked a distinct advance in the practice of nations and sought to ameliorate the harshness of war and to establish more clearly neutral rights. The only Instance in our history where fraud and cor ruption have been established against an arbitration tri bunal was that with Venezuela under the treaty of 1S00. Soon after the adjournment of the commission charges of Irregularity and fraud ou the part of Its members were made at Waahlngton by the Venezuelan Government, and an Investigation established to the satisfaction of Congress the fact that a corrupt arrangement had been made be tween the American commission, the umpire (a Venezue la, the United States minister In Venezuela and bis rela tive, the leading attorney before the commission, by which a Inrge part of each claim represented by the attorney and allowed by the commission was to be divided between the persons named. After considerable delay In aecurlng legis lation a new commission waa organized, which reviewed the work of its predecessor. Of the. twenty-four cases al lowed by the first commission only nine were passed on favorably, and three old cases rejected were allowed by the new commission, representing more than half of the total awards. INTERESTING TACTS ABOUT "DRY BONES." Bf Dr. Antnw WUmbm. With bone la usually associated the Idea of dryness not merely In a physical aense, but In an intellectual sense as well. The medical stu dent who has to acquire a knowledge of the bony framework has been said to travel In the "valley of dry bones," and as the osseous belongings we may see In our museums are certainly of the des iccated order of things, the familiar epithet seems justifiable enough. Yet bone, which may appear uninteresting to the casual observer, presents us with a alngularly Interesting history, not merely in respect of its structure but likewise In conectlon with Its growth and development Bone la not all phosphate. This la Its mineral side, giving is a strength and solidity which la -more than equal to that of good solid oak. The other side of Its composi tion wo find to be represented by gelatine. This last is the animal basis of bone. When the cook bolls bones it is for the sake of obtaining the gelatine, and we know that the boiled bone has a whitened aspect different from ' that of the natural structure, because its mineral constituents alone are left If we wished to reverse the process and to remove the mineral matter of our bone, leaving the gela tine, we ahould place it In a solution of some weak acid. This last would eat away and dissolve the living material, T8I AN A REMARKABLE WOMAN. For Forty Years the Rating Spirit of Chinee Empire. The reported death of the Empress Regent Tsl An, at the age of TO, di rected attention to the extraordinary career of a woman who for more than forty years has been the ruling spirit of the Chinese Empire, although for more than 4,000 years the native preju dice against the exercise of authority by the fair sex had been but twice overcome. Had abe been a descendant of Confucius, or the Ming dynasty, which preceded the present reigning family, or a high-born Manchu, ber rise to autocratic power would have been more Intelligible. Aa a matter of fact abe began life under grave dis abilities, being of humble origin, though her parents are aald to have been Manchus. Adopted by a Manchu family of considerable meana, ahe waa trained in the accomplishments which the Chinese prize In women, but her Intellect owed nothing to the Influence of an Invigorative education. She got ber opportunity when she became a member of the houaehold of the Empe ror Hlen Fung, who reigned from 1850 to 1861. She bad no son by him, but strange to say, she commended herself so strongly to the Empress Dowager, the mother of Tung Che, the next sov eregln, that during his long minority the two women ruled conjointly, as Empresses of the East and of the West On Tung Che's death, they raised to the throne his infant cousin, who still ostensibly reigns under the name of Kwang Su. Since the death of her feminine co-regent in 1881, Tsl An has bean the real mistress of China, except during a brief Interval, when Kwang Su, having attained his majority, was permitted temporarily to rule, and showed an Inclination to re organise the Chinese system. of educa tion on Western principles. The Inno vation waa quickly stopped by a palace revolution, and .during the laat few years Kwang Su baa been merely a figurehead, the Empress Tat An having been recognized not only by all Chi nese officials, but also hjr all the treaty powers, as regent Harper'a Weekly. GRAIN AS A PATIENT. The Il Mated Cereal I Sent to a Hos pital for Treatment. Most of us are familiar with hospi tals and retreats where life and health may be restored to human beings and anlmala, but a new and Interest ing phase Is a sanitarium for grain. Plants and flowers , are sub ject to disease, and aa the loaa of crops throughout the United States wheat Kvnas, alone has been estimated at some eighteen million dollars. It becomes Im perative that an effort ahould be made to save the dlsessed grain, Very often farmers lose the whole crop be cause of being compelled to harvest In wet weather. To the new hospital, which la locat ed at Port Arthur, Ontario, tha farm era may aend their grata to be treated and carefully nrrsed. After passing ut of the care of thS experts tht day the exemption THE COUNTRY VERSUS' THE CITY BOY.. Br Jma at. ftoar, a Hw frit. ma about the JAPAN'S RELATION The visitor called the little 4-year-old girl to bla knee and In hla most wtnnlng tones asked her name. She put ber linger In her mouth and aald nothing. "Tell the gentleman, darling," aald the fond father. The little one, without removing the finger, aald something that sounded like a quotation In Sanskrit "What?" ejaculated the visitor. "She saya Its Mary Jane Edith Bar ker Maud Jael Jackson," Interpreted the father. "Great Peter!" exclaimed the visit or. "What on earth possessed you to put all that on the child r "Well," said the father, "It wasn't altogether my fault but It waa the first one, you know, and there waa no end of fuss naming it Of course, my wlfe'a mother wanted it named for her and I naturally didn't want to alight my own mother. And Aunt Jael Simp son took a great notion to the kid and grain la aaid to be cleaner and more wholesome than wheat which haa not been subjected to this process. Con valescent wheat haa been atored away and kept In perfect health for aeveral years. When the wheat 111 unto death ar rivea, a nun placea it In a bath of pure water, where It ia brushed and scoured in machines made for the purpose until the grains are highly polished and In good shape for the mill. It la then placed upon a bed made of screening and subjected to a Jamming process, first of hot and then of cold water, until it Is perfectly dry. Again the grain Is subjected to an other cleaning process, after which it Is ready "to be returned to the owner, with the guarantee that It Ia thorough ly cured. Strange to say, when it la weighed it seems to have lost noth-' Ing, and being all rrain and no chaff It weighs three or four pounds heavier to the bushel Russia's Railway Softools. The railway schools of Russia are among the most Interesting of all na tions. When the great Siberian Rail way la completed it will form a prac tical weatward continuation of the American trunk llnea, connected by In ternational ferries In the form of gi gantic ateamahlp line. It waa the construction of the wonderful Siberian railway which largely liberalized all Ruaala and turned lta attention to the education of children. At the latest report Ruaala waa teaching 8,000 chil dren of railway men all branches of modern railway coiutructlon and oper ation. Ruaala recently sect two em inent ministers of affairs to thla coun try to examine the working of the rauway branches of tha Young Men's Christian Association for tha immedi but would leave the gelatine untouched. Then we should meet the Interesting spectacle of seeing tha formerly bard, dense bone becoming as elastic as possible, ao flexible In deed that we might tie If la a knot It 1 when poor little children, badly fed for the most part, do not receive a sufficient supply of phosphates that they develop bona deformities that are plteoua to behold. An argument thla, of powerful kind, that all mothers should be Instructed In the principles of physiology. In so far, at least aa the proper feeding of their children ia concerned. If wa could lift all the living matter out of a layer of bone it would praaent ua with the appearance of an ani mated spider's web. A bone lives in all its parte, aad la neither the deed nor the dry thing which popular notions credit It to be. But bones grow old as does every bodily possession of ours. They lose their elasticity, aa It were. In old age. The gelatine dlmlniahea, and with thla chance the bonea become-more trittle In nature, rendering fracture a more likely accident in the old person than In hla young er neighbor. Strong and denae aa bone may ba. It ia atlll subject to the universal law which decrees that lift and living things hare each their "little day." Tha chances of the city born boy are greater than those of the country born. If yon knew life of the country boy, how be baa to sleep in an nnheated room In winter with the temperature degrees below aero and in the sum mer time work In the fields in the sun front tea to fourteen hours a day, you' would probably see that the city boy baa an Immense advantage. They tell you that the bard work of the coun try boy makes him a splendid man physically. Of the coun try boya I knew full one-half are nnder the sod they plowed or are old men In the Tillage streets at the age of 40. I believe that the beet man la developed through asso ciation and struggle, and not In the country solitude. The farmer's boy la caught In the endless circle where he raises corn In an endless chain of anxiety, but the city boy of New York has the history of the world, aa a lea son, and tha voices of tha greatest men within the reach of his ears rather than the cricket and tha country night sounds. There are dirty streets and dark rooms Jn the city, but tbey are Illuminated by ambition, and even these dirty streets are aa dear in after years as tha country la to the successful farmer'a boys. American Boy. TO THE PHILIPPINES. By taraa Caawte. mt Jmfm, Japan la a small country with a large popula tion, and If we can manufacture for sale there and In China tha things necessary for Oriental life we will become an exceedingly prosperous nation, for our land has reached tha limit of agricultural production. The question with us la. Can the Philippine Islanda produce a sufficient quantity of those raw materials to warrant ua not only in Increasing the capacity of our mills and In building new onee, but In making aoma reciprocal arrangementa with the United States which would give a preference to the products of the Philippines over those of Java, BoYneo, Sumatra and other Oriental countries. The Philippine Islands have only been scratched, so to speak, and out of the 08,000,000 acres of agricultural lands the Philippine commission atatea that only about 6,000,000 acrea have been Indifferently farmed, while from my own observatlona In the Islands I should say that not more than one-third of tha land occupied by f arma are now being cultivated. we thought ahe might do aomethlng for her If we gave it ber name. Edith Thompson was my wife's dearest friend on earth and ahe Insisted on be ing its god-mother the baby'a, I mean. Uncle Barker waa dead aet on Its be ing a boy and called Heaeklah. We were thankful It wasn't but we called it Barker by way of a compromise." "I hope they were all pleaaad." "Well, no, they were not" aald the fond parent "Aunt Jael was miffed because ber name was strung on laat and all the rest of them didn't like It because their names were mixed up with the others. Uncle Barker thought 'Hezzie' would have been a neat and appropriate diminutive. There waa a good deal of nnpleaaantneaa about it to tell the truth." "What's the other little toddler called r asked the guest after a few momenta' thoughtful alienee. "Sarah," replied the father, prompt ly. Chicago Dally News. ate introduction of the service at di vision points of the railways of all Russia. Harper's Weekly. A Persia Foot's Wit, The following amusing atory la told regarding the Shah'a relations with hla poet laureate. On one eccaalon the Shah read to him one of his own poem and asked for his opinion: "Even If I deserve your majesty'a anger," aald the candid poet "I muat aay that It la anything but poetry." The Shah, feeling insulted, cried out to those who waited on him: "Take thla ass to the stable." After a little while, becoming calm er, be tried the poet once more, thia time with a fresh set of verses. When he had finished reading the poet start ed to go away. "Where are yon going?" asked tha Shah. "To the stable, your majesty," waa the reply of the poet Thla time the Shah enjoyed the jokw and the poet waa forgiven. Frmlr-Eatiag. Hygieniata all agree In telling aa that, we do not eat nearly enough fruit which la Infinitely more productive of health and beauty than sweetmeats and pastry. Rip aprflea are especially healthy, and children may eat them without danger. Rome doctors aay that an appl at bedtime produce sleep. Pears are more taaty than ap plea, but not ao healthy nnleea cooked. Prune have medicinal qualltiea which cannot b deeded. They ar better cooked, however. Aprtcota ar ala more healthy cooked than raw. Peach, ea ar vary good, but the moat heaJtxt givlng oPail fruit are grape. The way of soms traQgrasseca aeema to be pretty smooth, o GEO. P. GROVELL, rtluceewor to B. L- Bmlth, Oldest iiubllahd Uoum lu the) TLUy. DEALER IN Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Hardware, . , Flour and Feed, etc. This old-established house will con tinue to pay cash lor all its goods; it pays no rent; it employs a clerk, but does not bave to divide with a partner. All dividenda are made with customers in the way of reasonable pricea. Lumber Wood, Posts, Etc. Davenport Bros. Lumber Co. Have opened an office in Hood River. Call and get prices and leave orders, which will be promptly filled. : D KLIQHTFCL ROUTE AYUUHT VLWS IZZY CRAGS KfiP CANONS A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY Bee Nature In all ber glorloua beauty, and then the acme of man's handiwork. Tha tlrat ia found along ihe line of the Denver A Rio (.rancid Railroad, the lat ter at ihe 8t. Louis fair, lour trip will be one of pleaaure make the moat of It. For Information aud Illustrated lit erature write W, C McBRIDE, Gen. Agt., Fortland. Orcroa ON TON BARBER SHOP L. C. HAYNES, Paor. The place to get an eaay shave, an up-to-date hair cut, and to enjoy the luxury of a porcalaln bath tub. J E. WELCH, THE VETERINARY SURGEON. Bas returned to Rood River and la prepared to do any work tn tht veterinary line. He can be found by calling at or phoning to Clarke's drug store. JHE NEW FEED 8TORE, On the Mount Hood road, south of town, keeps constantly on hand the beat quality of Groceries, Hay, Grain and Feed at lowaat price. P. F. LAMAR, Proprietor. UREKA MEAT MARKET, McGUIRE BROS., Props. Dealers in Fresh and Cured Meats, Lard, Poultry, Fruits and Vegetables. FREE DELIVERY. PHONE 36 Oregon SlIOkT LINE and union Pacific :,. mm ,m,m iiimiiii.iiiiiiiiiiii i in. i i nun i I i i i in I o tL-iSo Mo AT I'V I m. U9 , TIME SCHEDULES ., " Paraat y rtlaaS. Or. Aaatva Chicago Salt Lakt, Dnver, 4:10. SB, Portland Ft. Worth.Omaha, Spatial Kanaaa City, at. Iiwa. as Louis,Chlcagoand via task Hantingtoa. Atlantis It. Paul Fast Mall. W JO a. as. Ktpress t .iS p.m. via anuagtoa. St Past Atlantis txjatm. t;le, aa. Put Mail ;00 a. aa. via i Spokane 70 HOURS PORTLAND TO CHICAGO No Change of Cars. Uwest Rate Quickest Time. OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE OM PORTLAMP. .. ill sailing datea 1:01 a, a. subject to change v For Baa Francises ail star j t dara - rMtlv CeNnekla llfw BOO a. a. gxuadav tfaawrs. Ex. Suua SaturW Tsl starts aed Wav M.sa a. as. Landings. ia.as. WlnasMtt Bhrar. t : a. as. aad Fit. Balam, Indeoen- aj. deuoe, Corrallti aadwarlaDdiata. Mass. Taatkal n-Mi. :.. taas-i That. Mea. We, aaaaat, Oregon CUv, Dayton eadfYL aad war landing. v lT.aipa.rl Seeks liver. Lv.Lewlstsa 4:Ma-s. SO a., Vatlr eaeaptj Slparia ta Lawlaton Datlr uara atardag gnaajV " wiv.ru u Ceaaral Paaaannr Iim v-i.aA. T. 1. XTNNA1RD, Ageat, Hood BiTer. O 0 o